Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

By B. Cardinale, J. Wright, Marc W. Cadotte, I. Carroll, Andy Hector, D. Srivastava, Michel Loreau, J. J. Weis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Barbara C. Schmid
2. Peter B. Reich
3. J. Emmett Duffy
4. Francesco de Bello
5. Michel Loreau
6. David Tilman
7. S. Lavorel
8. J. van Ruijven

In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. F. Isbell
3. James F. Cahill Jr.
4. David Tilman
5. Jane Cowles
6. Barbara C. Schmid
7. Brian J. Enquist
8. B. Cardinale

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. Francesco de Bello
3. Barbara C. Schmid
4. J. Emmett Duffy
5. S. Lavorel
6. David Tilman
7. M. Scherer‐Lorenzen
8. Michel Loreau

Citations in the corpus

• Forest Biodiversity and the Delivery of Ecosystem Goods and Services: Translating Science into Policy (2011, background): “…reviews of the scientific literature on the biodiversity effects on ecosystem goods and services (e.g., production, water retention) broadly support the hypothesis that some services are reduced if biodiversity is lost (e.g., Balvanera et al. 2006, Cardinale et al. 2007, Thompson et al. 2009).”
• Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “A meta-analysis not only confirmed the important role of complementarity effects but also showed these effects increased with experimental duration (Cardinale et al., 2007).”
• Complementarity among species in horizontal versus vertical rooting space (2008, methodology): “While application of the method has shown that complementarity is an essential mechanism behind the diversity– productivity relationship (Cardinale et al. 2007; Loreau and Hector 2001; Roscher et al. 2005; Tilman et al. 2001; van Ruijven and Berendse 2003), it remains difficult to demonstrate which…”
• Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: The potential for practical monitoring applications (2015, neutral): “Many BEF-related studies have identi fi ed positive relationships between phytoplankton species richness (taken as an indicator of biodiversity) and primary production (Balvanera et al., 2006; Cardinale et al., 2006, 2007; Hector et al., 2007; Ptacnik et al., 2008; Goebel et al., 2014).”
• Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability (2012, background): “Previous research has shown that the importance of complementarity increases with time (Cardinale et al. 2007), so the strength of the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship gets stronger through time.”
• Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems (2009, background): “Most of these studies concentrated on relatively species rich and nutrient-poor grasslands and found that higher diversity leads to increased productivity (here defined as aboveground biomass production; e.g. Tilman et al., 1997a; Hector et al., 1999; Roscher et al., 2005; Cardinale et al., 2007), h”
• Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests (2014, background): “72 The selection effect (i.e. selection of particular species or functional traits) proposes that 73 high species richness increases the probability of including the most productive species 74 which will become dominant in the community (e.g. Cardinale et al., 2007).”
• Linkage between tree species richness and soil microbial diversity improves phosphorus bioavailability (2019, background): “…among species for the acquisition of resources in ways that are spatially or temporally complementary or the interactions between plants that facilitate an increase in resource availability or other related growing conditions, which subsequently increase productivity (Cardinale et al., 2007).”
• Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems (2008, background): “larger spatial and temporal scales [36,43], and a critical future challenge is to unravel the ecological conditions under which biodiversity has its greatest effect on functional rates [40,42].”
• Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “In natural and experimental communities, previous studies have documented that plant biodiversity is positively correlated with productivity due to functional complementarity and selection effects (Huston, 1979; Bai et al., 2004; Balvanera et al., 2006; Cardinale et al., 2007).”
• Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment (2018, neutral): “…al., 2014, 2018; Milcu et al., 2016), drought stress (Dimitrakopoulos & Schmid, 2004; Vogel, Scherer‐Lorenzen, & Weigelt, 2012), and complementarity (Cardinale et al., 2007; Guderle et al., 2018; Hernandez & Picon‐Cochard, 2016; Van Peer, Nijs, Reheul, & Cauwer, 2004), while only a few have…”